Class of 2020 Public Interest Associates

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	Tyler Bishop Tyler was born and raised in Houston, Texas, but spent his high school and college years in Tennessee. He attended Vanderbilt University, where he studied political science, communication studies, and corporate strategy. He also served as the editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper, The Vanderbilt Hustler. Tyler began his professional career in journalism as a politics fellow for The Atlantic Magazine in Washington, D.C. While applying to law school, he worked as a communications consultant for nonprofits in the D.C. area. At Stanford, Tyler is involved in several pro bono and community service projects. He is the co-president of the Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation. He also serves as a Street Law teacher and is a co-founder of the Election Law Project, which partners with community organizations to conduct poll monitoring, voter registration, and other election-related activities. Tyler is an active and proud member of OutLaw and of the Black Law Students Association. During his 1L summer, Tyler worked as a Diversity Fellow in the Political Law Group at Perkins Coie, where he supported plaintiff-side voting rights litigation. As a 2L, he served as an extern for the ACLU of Northern California and participated in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. He split his 2L summer between the Political Law Group at Perkins and the Civil Rights Enforcement Section of the California Attorney General’s Office in Los Angeles. In his free time, Tyler likes to hike, run, watch baseball, and explore new cities. You might find Tyler hanging out in the Mission District of San Francisco, where he lives with his partner.
	Celin Carlo-Gonzalez Celin grew up in the city of Boston. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in December of 2016, where she majored in History and minored in Philosophy. Before law school, Celin worked full-time in fast food and retail during college and did community organizing work in both Boston and Lowell. At Stanford, she served as the Student Coordinator for the Housing Pro Bono Project and Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor for the Stanford Law and Policy Review. She has also been involved in the Stanford Latino Law Student Association and has participated in two alternative spring breaks. She spent her 1L summer working as a summer associate at Paul, Weiss in New York, and was a summer associate at Covington & Burling’s San Francisco office during her 2L summer. Outside of school, she enjoys cooking, music, designing t-shirts, and DJing.
	Yanni Chen Yanni was born in Brisbane, Australia and grew up in Needham, Massachusetts. She attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 2016 with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). Before law school, Yanni spent a year working on technology policy and data visualization at National Journal in Washington, D.C. She is interested in digital civil liberties and net neutrality, and spent her 1L summer at the Office of the Attorney General of New York in the Bureau for Internet and Technology, working on the Office’s challenge to the FCC’s latest net neutrality order and investigation into the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. At SLS, Yanni is co-manager of Shaking the Foundations, social chair of Asian & Pacific Islanders Law Students Association, a member editor of Stanford Law Review, and a member editor of Stanford Technology Law Review. In her free time, Yanni likes to swim, hike, experiment in the kitchen, tend to her many plants, and belt (poorly) and dance (also poorly) to ABBA.
	Tyler Helms Tyler was born in Flint, Michigan and graduated from Arizona State University in 2017 with degrees in Economics and Political Science. Here at Stanford, he is on the board of the StreetLaw Pro Bono, the Native American Law Students Association, and the Stanford Law Association and is a senior editor for the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. He is interested in Antitrust and split his 1L summer between Snell & Wilmer in Phoenix and Legal Services of Eastern Michigan in Flint. In his free time, Tyler loves rock climbing, watching soccer, and playing FIFA.
	Priscilla Hernandez Priscilla is a first-generation Chicana/Mexican-American from Los Angeles County. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 2015 with a degree in International Relations and a double minor in Spanish, Psychology and Law. After graduating from college, Priscilla worked as a graduate fellow for the AmeriCorps JusticeCorps program where she assisted self-represented litigants with family law issues. She then worked as a legal assistant for the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) where she helped attorneys obtain immigration relief for unaccompanied minors from Latin America. At Stanford, Priscilla has served as the Stanford Law Association Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion, Vice President of Recruitment for SLLSA, one of the Pipeline Chairs for FLI, Alumni Chair for WoCC, and as one of the Senior Editors for the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Priscilla also participated in the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic during her 2L Spring. Priscilla spent her 1L summer at the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) doing immigration impact litigation work. This past summer, Priscilla was a summer associate at O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles. Post-law school, Priscilla will return home and eventually clerk on the Central District of California in 2022. Priscilla enjoys trying new food, listening to podcasts, and dancing to cumbias.
	Caroline Hirst Caroline grew up in Davis, California, and studied English and Geography at UCLA. After college, she worked briefly as a paralegal at an environmental law firm in Berkeley before moving to a civil rights firm in Chicago that specializes in police misconduct and wrongful conviction. Her public interest activities at Stanford include helping with Shaking the Foundations, Stanford’s progressive lawyering conference, volunteering with Prisoner Legal Rights and the Naturalization Project, and the Criminal Defense Clinic. During her 1L summer she worked at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, and during her 2L summer she worked at Orrick in SF. She loves traveling, eating dessert, and making new friends.
	Jeffrey Ho Jeff was born in New Jersey and grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts. He attended Duke University and graduated with a double major in Public Policy Studies and Statistics. At law school, Jeffrey served as the co-president of the Asian and Pacific Islanders Law Student Association, an Articles Editor for the Stanford Law Review, and Executive Editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Review. He is interested in criminal defense, post-conviction work, and impact litigation related to the criminal justice system. In his free time, Jeff enjoys rock climbing, hiking, and generally being outside.
	Richard Z. Lee Richard grew up in Chatham, New Jersey and went to college at the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in English. After earning a Master’s degree at Oxford, he completed a Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley, focusing on early modern English poetry and teaching a variety of literature and composition classes along the way. At SLS, Richard has participated in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, the Housing Pro Bono Project, and the Stanford Journal of International Law. He spent his 1L summer at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco and worked the following year at the firm of Covington & Burling in Palo Alto. Richard enjoys spending his free time with his wife and one-year-old daughter, as well as heading up to the mountains to ski and hike whenever possible.
	Andrew Longhi Andrew grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Government. Before law school, he served in the policy and strategic planning office of Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, where he worked to shift how the United States deploys its vast economic tools to address pressing global challenges. At SLS, Andrew is an editor of the Stanford Law Review, represented clients in the Religious Liberty Clinic, and is a Franke Global Business Law Fellow. He has also served as a Research Assistant to Dean Elizabeth Magill and Professors Janet Alexander and Amalia Kessler. This past summer Andrew worked at Covington & Burling in Washington D.C., and during his 1L summer clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rwanda and the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. This fall he will extern at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California in San Francisco.
	Amanda McCaffrey Amanda grew up in Davis, California (a couple of hours northeast of Stanford) and graduated from UC Berkeley in 2013 (she will always root for Cal in the Big Game). Prior to law school, she worked on litigation before the International Court of Justice as well as federal and state courts in California and earned a master’s degree in creative writing. Amanda spent her 1L summer interning at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague. At SLS she is involved with the Democratic Socialists, the International Law Society, the Prisoner Advocacy and Resources Coalition, the Human Rights Law Association, and the International Refugee Assistance Project. She also looks forward to joining the Afghanistan Legal Education Project in the fall and the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic in the spring. She loves to cook and is the proud mother of nine beautiful plants!
	Carra Rentie Carra Rentie grew up in Arlington, Texas. She graduated from Stanford University in 2017 with a degree in linguistics. In college, she did research on first language acquisition in children and subsequent language acquisition in adults. She was introduced to law scholarship while working as a research assistant to Dr. John Rickford in his studies on the use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in courtrooms. During law school, she did an externship with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, and participated in the Stanford Community Law Clinic. She split her first summer between the Crow Nation Tribal Court in Montana, and the 68th District Court in Dallas, Texas. She split her second summer between internships at the Northern District of Texas, and McKool Smith. She is also involved in BLSA, NALSA, the StreetLaw Pro Bono, and the Stanford Law and Policy Review. In her free time, Carra enjoys reading, making music, tutoring Kindergarten math (Yes, even during law school!), and storytelling.
	Liza Starr Born and raised outside of Los Angeles, Liza graduated from Yale University in 2013 with a degree in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. Before law school, Liza worked as a project manager at Redstone Strategy Group, a boutique social sector consulting firm, where she advised philanthropies and nonprofits to solve urgent social problems, from food security to climate change to early childhood development. At Stanford, Liza is pursuing a JD/MBA. She has participated in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and is a member of the Stanford Law Review and the Stanford University Board of Trustees’ Committee on Development. She spent her 1L summer in the Social Justice and Impact Litigation Section of the Santa Clara County Counsel, and she split her 2L summer between Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. and Kaplan Hecker & Fink in New York City. In her free time, Liza tries to go to the mountains as much as possible, whether to hike, ski, or just soak up the California sunshine.
	Alexandra Willingham Alex spent her early years bopping between Seattle, Singapore, and London, but considers Oakland, California home. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2015, where she majored in History. While in college, Alex studied abroad in Kunming, China, and spent a summer working in leprosy isolation villages in Guangdong Province. Before law school, she worked as a paralegal, and interned at the San Francisco Public Defender. Alex spent her 1L summer at Americans United for Separation of Church and State in D.C., and split her 2L summer between Paul, Weiss and Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York. At Stanford, she is President of If/When/How, Vice President of the Kirkwood Moot Court Board, and a research assistant for Professor Deborah Rhode. She has also been involved with the Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), Stanford Law Students against Gendered Violence (SLS GiVe), and the Domestic Violence Pro Bono. This fall, Alex will be an advanced student in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. In her free time, Alex loves watching Premier League, karaoke, driving long distances for good food, and traveling as much as she can. After clerking, she plans to work in reproductive justice or gendered violence prevention.
	Esther Yu Esther grew up in Dayton, OH and went to college at the University of Chicago, where she double majored in English Literature and East Asian Studies. She then pursued a masters degree in English Literature at the University of Virginia, specializing in 20th century American and Asian-American literature. Before law school, she also ran a feminist blog and worked at an LSAT prep company. At Stanford, she is active in APILSA, WoCC, and CRCL. Her favorite law school experience so far has been representing clients in the Community Law Clinics. She spent her 1L summer at the Santa Clara County Counsel and her 2L summer at the San Francisco firm Farella Braun and Martel. In her free time, Esther likes traveling, taking dance classes, and binging TV.